Showing posts with label Trump. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trump. Show all posts

Thursday, April 20, 2017

FAILED OBAMA LACKEY: It’s Quite Troubling President Trump Hasn’t Embraced "Smart Power"

By William Teach

Apparently, leading from behind is passe’:

The risks of the Trump administration hollowing out American leadership

On the surface, much of President Trump’s foreign policy seems to be reverting to the mainstream upon first contact with reality. Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s horrific use of chemical weapons produced a quick military response, applauded across partisan lines in Washington. Relations with Russia have settled to predictably adversarial depths. The administration is full of appropriately reassuring words about NATO, and the one-China policy was safely back in place for the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping. Senior national security appointments have been mostly traditionalist, with radical voices in retreat. In a Washington always impatient for sweeping judgments as a new administration wraps up its first 100 days, it is tempting to conclude that convention is ascendant.

Beneath the surface, however, lurk more troubling trend lines. Through policy incoherence and not-so-benign neglect, the Trump team risks hollowing out the ideas, initiative and institutions on which U.S. leadership and international order rest.

BOOM: Landmark Legal Files Brief With FISA Court Supporting a Full Investigation into Trump Surveillance

Thanks to Mark for shooting this over the transom:

UNITED STATES FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE COURT

IN RE UNKNOWN FOREIGN
INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE
COURT ORDERS

AMICUS CURIAE LANDMARK LEGAL FOUNDATION MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN SUPPORT OF ITS MOTION FOR EN BANC ORDER DIRECTING INVESTIGATION

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

JAW-DROPPING: Coal's Colossal Comeback

By Stephen Moore

Buried in an otherwise-humdrum jobs report was the jaw-dropping pronouncement by the Department of Labor that mining jobs in America were up by 11,000 in March. Since the low point in October 2016, and following years of painful layoffs in the mining industry, the mining sector has added 35,000 jobs.

What a turnaround. Liberals have been saying that Donald Trump was lying to the American people when he said that he could bring coal jobs back. Well, so far, he has delivered on his promise.

There's more good news for the coal industry.

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

ANALYSIS: What Would Actually Happen If North Korea’s Kim Jong-un Launched A Nuclear Attack

By Ryan Pickrell

For years, the world had heard warnings, but most doubted the day would ever come. Most fall before allied defenses, but one missile finds its mark — it’s the one that matters most. In a flash, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people perish.

Would North Korea fire off a nuclear weapon? No one knows for certain, but what we do know is that the above scenario is exactly what an aggressive and increasingly-powerful North Korea has been threatening for decades. While the reclusive regime may have previously lacked the necessary weaponry, the North now has the kind of capabilities to turn at least some of its threats into promises.

HANDY COMPARISON CHART: The Income Tax Then... and Now

By ATR

As Americans finish yet another tax filing season, let’s take a look at the 104-year history of the income tax:

  • In 1913 the top marginal income tax bracket was 7% -- today it is 39.6%. 
  • In 1913 the marginal income tax bracket range was 1% - 7%. Today the range is 10% - 39.6%.
  • In 1913 there were 400 pages in the tax code. Today there are 74,608 pages in the code.
  • In 1913 the family standard deduction was $98,425.45 in today’s dollars. The family standard deduction now is just $12,600.
  • When the income tax started in 1913, only 358,000 Americans had to file a 1040. Today 148,606,578 Americans file 1040s.

Monday, April 17, 2017

3 Articles About Trump Legacy Media are Censoring

But I'm sure their omissions are purely accidental.

3. Why Trump Makes This Factory Owner Giddy
Drew Greenblatt is a small business owner: his company, Marlin Steel Wire Products, employs 30 people to make precision baskets used on factory floors, and generates $6 million in annual revenue. David Greenblatt is happy, which is why you won't see this story reported by vintage media.

Sunday, April 16, 2017

YES, THAT JUST HAPPENED: When it comes to our borders, there’s definitely a new sheriff in town

By Matthew Vadum

The Obama administration’s hands-off approach to border security is a thing of the past, Attorney General Jeff Sessions dramatically declared at a border crossing as he vowed to bring felony charges against those who unlawfully enter the U.S. multiple times.

Enforcement action against criminal aliens will now be given the highest priority. President Obama said much the same thing over his years in office, promising to deport the worst members of the illegal alien community. He did little to carry out his pledge.

The announcement by Sessions comes two weeks after he said the Trump administration was moving forward with cutting off federal law enforcement grants to local governments that shield illegal aliens, especially violent felons, from federal immigration authorities. 

Saturday, April 15, 2017

MOABS ARE JUST THE APPETIZER: US Conducts Successful Field Test Of New Thermonuclear Weapon

By Tyler Durden

With the world still abuzz over the first ever deployment of the GBU-43/B "Mother Of All Bombs" in Afghanistan, where it reportedly killed some 36 ISIS fighters, in a less noticed statement the US National Nuclear Security Administration quietly announced overnight the first successful field test of the modernized, "steerable" B61-12 gravity thermonuclear bomb in Nevada.

Friday, April 14, 2017

PASS ME A TISSUE: New York Times Extremely Butthurt About Laws Suddenly Being Enforced

By William Teach

When it was Attorney General Eric Holder running guns to Mexican crime syndicates, the Times was silent.

When Holder was using the power of the state to investigate reporters, the Times was silent. When he tried to cover up the Fort Hood Islamist shooting, the Times was silent.

When he started a war on legal gun ownership, which is firmly embedded in the Constitution, the Times cheered. When Holder attempted to crack down on states that dared require identification to safeguard voting, the Times cheered.

When he was protecting rogue IRS agents and going after whistleblowers, the Times was silent.

And when he went after Arizona for getting tough on illegal aliens, the Times cheered. So that little history lesson makes the Editorial Board's issues with AG Jeff Sessions understandable.

IT’S OFFICIAL: Democrats Now the Party of Radical Revolution

By Daniel Greenfield

In this century, Democrats rejected the outcomes of two presidential elections won by Republicans. After Bush won, they settled for accusing him of being a thief, an idiot, a liar, a draft dodger and a mass murderer. They fantasized about his assassination and there was talk of impeachment. But elected officials gritted their teeth and tried to get things done.

This time around it’s “radically” different.

Thursday, April 13, 2017

UNEXPECTEDLY: Rex Tillerson Not Nearly as Cozy with Russia as Senile Old Media Predicted

By Will Racke

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has emerged as the point man for the Trump administration’s confrontational approach to Russia, a repudiation of widespread media hand-wringing that he would be a pushover in negotiations with Moscow.

Tillerson’s hard line on Russia contrasts previous reports suggesting he would bend over backward to mollify Russian President Vladimir Putin with whom he has ties after 10 years as the CEO of ExxonMobil.

A December report from Time called President Donald Trump’s nomination of Tillerson a move the could “hardly have been more perfect if the Kremlin itself had scripted it.” Time wondered if Tillerson, carrying a “reputation as an unsentimental dealmaker,” would reshape American diplomacy and acquiesce to Russia’s desire for America to stop putting “principles ahead of profits.”

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

CRICKETS: Proof That Obama Spied on Trump -- Vindicating Mark Levin -- Curiously Ignored by Vintage Media

By Nate Madden

Almost six weeks ago this Thursday, Mark Levin began asking questions about the Obama administration’s alleged surveillance of the Trump campaign and/or transition team. Now, there’s absolutely no question it occurred.

On his Wednesday evening radio show, the Conservative Review editor-in-chief took the “praetorian guard” media to task for their “cover up” coverage of the Obama surveillance scandal, following a bombshell Tuesday revelation from the Washington Post that the Obama administration obtained a FISA warrant last summer to snoop on former Trump adviser Carter Page.

The revelation puts a gratuitous amount of egg on the faces of reporters and media outlets who have done little more than try to downplay the scandal since it started over a month ago.

GO FIGURE: Illegal Aliens Caught Committing "Minor" Crimes Are Now Getting... Arrested

By William Teach

What's that? You say they are unlawfully present in the United States?

Hey yo!

Then I guess, by the letter of the law, that they are criminals!

Newsweak shrieks that President Trump's new immigration order "had led to the arrest of hundreds of undocoumented immigrants for minor [sic] crimes":

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

THE TRUMP EFFECT: China Threatens to Eradicate North Korea’s Nuclear Facilities

By Tyler Durden

With everyone putting down new and/or revised "red lines", be it on Syria or North Korea, it was now China's turn to reveal its "red" or rather "bottom line", and in a harshly worded editorial titled "The United States Must Not Choose a Wrong Direction to Break the DPRK Nuclear Deadlock on Wednesday" Beijing warned it would attack North Korea's facilities producing nuclear bombs, effectively engaging in an act of war, if North Korea crosses China's "bottom line."

Monday, April 10, 2017

MY 600 POUND LIFE, FEDERAL EDITION: OMB Director Warns Agencies of "Substantial" Budget Cuts

By Juliegrace Brufke

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney is reportedly slated to send a letter to federal agencies later this week warning them to prep for substantial budget cuts.

The guidance letter falls in line with President Donald Trump’s March 13 executive order aimed at making the government leaner and more efficient, Axios first reported.

Friday, April 07, 2017

HEY, DUMMIES: Still think Trump is bought and paid for by the Russians?

By Gaston

Given the momentous events in the past 24 hours on Syria wanted to let you know that CRTV made tonight’s episode of LevinTV free. Its linked below.

During the program, Levin addresses the narrative that President Trump is a stooge or a patsy for the Russian government.

The president’s actions and all the evidence clearly shows that is not the case. “Do you think Vladimir Putin is happy right now that Donald Trump was elected president of the United States?” Levin asks.

“Do you think Donald Trump is bought and paid for by the Russians, based on what he did yesterday?”

Thursday, April 06, 2017

NUCLEAR HYPOCRISY: Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh

Earlier today, Democrats employed the first filibuster of a Supreme Court Nominee in half a century.

In 1968, Lyndon Johnson's pick was stonewalled for failing to report suspect income. Since then, bipartisan majorities have approved judges from across the political spectrum -- even radical leftists like Ruth Bader Ginburg and Elena Kagan -- and instead offered deference to a sitting president.

Until now.

MEDIA HARDEST HIT: Trump Didn’t Call Putin Before Launching Tomahawks Against Syria

By Saagar Enjeti

President Donald Trump did not call Russian President Vladimir Putin before sending 60 Tomahawk missiles to strike a Syrian airfield likely used in a Tuesday chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Trump justified the strike, saying it was in the “vital national interest” of the U.S. to ensure chemical weapons were not used in violation of international norms.

Wednesday, April 05, 2017

MARK LEVIN: Trump Not the First Victim of Obama Police State Tactics

By Nate Madden

If Donald Trump’s team was indeed the victim of politically-motivated surveillance and leaks by the Obama administration, it may not have been the first, says Levin.

“This whole Democrat ruse, media ruse has been used to conduct domestic surveillance,” said Levin of the Left’s pervasive, unsupported Russia-Trump conspiracy theories. “And it was done before; it was done widely before in the Iran deal.”

Levin was referring to a Tablet Magazine story written by Lee Smith that examined whether or not Donald Trump was the first domestic political opponent targeted by Obama’s alleged spy-game:

Tuesday, April 04, 2017

SO IT TURNS OUT A GOVERNMENT REALLY WAS INTERFERING IN OUR ELECTION: It Was Ours

By Rush Limbaugh

It is fascinating to watch an entire industry disintegrate before our very eyes. So much of what we call the news business is literally eating itself alive and I guess they’re willing to do it. I have never in my life seen such a shocking abandonment of stated principles and objectives on the part of any group that I can recall.